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Company Description:
Halluminate is an applied AI and data company working with frontier Labs to train Financial Services Super Intelligence. We do this by building high quality computer and tool-use RL (Reinforcement Learning) gyms to train AI agents that do work across financial services verticals (ex. excel modeling, powerpoint creation and more in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, etc.) and broader knowledge work (consulting, insurance, etc).
The company graduated from YCombinator (S25) and is scaling the team.
Role Description:
Halluminate is looking to hire an experienced Finance expert to join our research team to do Applied AI Research in the Financial Services domains.
The responsibilities of this role include:
This is an IC role focused on driving and defining the frontier of what AI looks like in Finance.
Define and publish taxonomy of AI tasks/workflows in finance, and expanding that playbook to other industries (consulting, insurance, accounting, etc) to broader ecosystem and community
Talk with real-world financial services leaders at major banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, etc to get a boots on the ground report on AI adoption, drawbacks, capabilities, buying decisions, priorities, etc.
Translating real-world insights on AI capabilities into our roadmap for RL environment building within the core team
Drive innovation of our RL environment problem building process with engineering and research teams - feedback directly contributing to core product and platform improvements
Working with research team to define state of the art benchmarks, leaderboards, new research directions, etc.
Necessary Skills Include:
4+ years of real-world experience in banking, consulting, strategic finance, investing, etc.
Deep mission alignment to revolutionize the way Finance Knowledge Work is done in the world
Ability to analyze massive amounts of information and communicate it in a clean and presentable way for mass audience of stakeholders from researchers to finance industry leaders
Product sense to interact between engineering and research team to improve platform and processes
Detail oriented execution across projects, technical and problem solving skills to build and QA RL tasks
Fluency in use of LLM/Agents in your daily finance work (automating spreadsheet modeling, building evals, testing latest products in finance category)
⚕️ Benefits
Fully covered healthcare coverage for yourself and subsidized for dependents (Medical, Dental, Vision)
Relocation Stipend ($10k+)
401k (4% match)
Food: Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working
Health: Free gym membership
Transportation: Free transportation to and from the office (Ubers, Waymo)
Visa Sponsorship (ex. H1B)
Location
Full-Time In Person in San Francisco
Compensation
Base: $180k - $225k
Equity: 0.15 - .30 %
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